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becomes sufficiently controlled to direct the ganglionic operations tending toward mental poise.

But where aims run higher than mere comfort to body and mind, where there is a desire to cultivate the mentality and to call forth latent powers and forces, we need to attend to inhalation irrespective of climatic conditions; we need to take our breathing exercises with our mind well fixed upon current and rythm.

LITTLE WEDGES

Entering politics means to take interest in civics for the purpose of improving social conditions and to end partyism.

In the days gone by a publican was a sinner, and re stands for over or again, consequently, a republican is a sinner over and over again.

Utah first renounced polygamy and thereafter liquor. In Turkey liquor was first renounced, still polygamy continues to hold the reins.

If we quit talking it saves us a great deal of thinking. It does the mind good to take a rest occasionally. As some of us know not when to give ourselves rest, we have to be compelled to do so, lest we go to pieces.

Sermonettes

Suffering makes some people gentle, while the majority of them harden their hearts.

Law is like a wheel-it runs both ways, forward and on the reverse.

The earth moves; but her movements are regular and accurate, while the movements of humanity are chaotic.

The man higher up is machine-made and for that reason cannot animate with his own intelligence, as he has to serve the ends of those who made him.

God is a God of the living, and for this reason we are not to look up to the dead for inspiration.

The old song has it that "There is a land that is fairer than this, and by faith we can see it afar."

Faith is inspiration to some, while to others it adds assurance and confidence.

Be slow of speech and form no opinion as to what the ears hear, as hearsay may be but a bubble.

How true: "The letter of the law killeth."

Be thankful for the things you miss.

Going with the tide is the fool's delight, but it calls for wisdom and strenuous efforts to be able to combat the tide.

There is but one step from the divine to the ridiculous, and only one dot separates heaven from hell.

In pursuit of happiness many a man falls by the wayside of misery.

In ecclesia we are made to see the stars and in jura we feel the stripes. Once both become united we get a double portion.

The very impossible is made possible, for what lacks wisdom is accomplished by force.

Where the spirit is willing the flesh is weak, and the majority may pride themselves on much flesh while their spirit is weak.

The confusion of tongues has left a Tower of Babel to testify to the results of inharmony, while ignorance continues to speak through ruins.

Abate a bait.

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Imagination is conducive to impulse, despondency, inconsistency, unhealthy thusiasm, frenzy and fanaticism.

Season Hinte

The month of many changes attempting to minimize the phenomena of all the sea

sons.

April showers and April winds make it necessary for us to use more care in our daily fare.

The month of herb teas and savories.

Fresh greens and tropical fruits, cold frame and hot house products in small quantities as a tonic.

Fresh eggs and plenty of sweet milk for children, cottage cheese with chives and tender yarrow in scrambled eggs for the mature.

Small salads used twice a day will prove far more effective than one big salad once a day. Even here homeopathic doses will prove beneficial.

Change breakfast cereals daily when taking your half-grapefruit if you wish to keep regular habits. Using the same kind and brand of a cereal for several consecutive mornings breaks the charm of citrus juices and much of the virtue remains unredeemed,

Eat when hungry, otherwise confine yourself to liquids of a purely flushing nature.

When mentally depressed it is better to take a hot bath and a rub rather than a meal.

Springtime is resurrection time, and to appear in the garment of purity calls for eliminators and tonics which nature so generously lavishes upon us.

Nature offers us certain salts to be used as eliminators and she gives us plants or their products in the form of oils, essences or decoctions to answer as disinfectants arresting disease.

Diverse green herbs are plentiful and should be used in homeopathic doses, but used frequently.

Mushrooms, broiled, stewed, fried or baked, are in season. They are good fertilizers, to be used frequently, but in homeopathic doses.

Even the wisest of us are apt to eat more than their due. It is just that little extra ballast that breaks in on the regular operations of the whole of the sympathetic system and little by little suggests disturbances which revenge themselves either upon the organic or the mental operations, according to temperament.

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